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New Hard Drive ''Dog Tags'' Offer Extra Protection for Pexagon Store-It Portable Drives.


GUILFORD, Conn. -- Engraving Services Offer Two Distinct Layers of Physical Security for Pexagon's myDrive

It's a war zone out there. Don't let your hard drive leave home without its dog tags.

Pexagon Technology, a manufacturer and distributor of Store-It Hi-Speed USB USB
 in full Universal Serial Bus

Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer.
 portable hard drives, today announced two new services that allow owners of the Company's portable drives to customize, personalize, and protect the units. Pexagon's myDrive(TM) LOST-N-FOUND and Customer Laser Engraving Laser engraving is the practice of using lasers to engrave or mark an object (it is also sometimes incorrectly described as etching, which involves the use of acid or a similar chemical).  product identification systems enable users to physically encode their hard drives with information to facilitate quick identification in the event the devices are misplaced mis·place  
tr.v. mis·placed, mis·plac·ing, mis·plac·es
1.
a. To put into a wrong place: misplace punctuation in a sentence.

b.
 or lost.

The service allows users to create an extra layer of protection for their portable Store-It drives, which are capable of storing thousands of digital photos, data files, MP3 files, and hours of digital video--all in a shirt-pocket sized device. The black, anodized, extruded aluminum alloy drives are ultra-thin, measuring a slight 1.3 cm thick and 7.8 cm wide, and offer the EZ Touch(TM) One-Button Backup, the most intuitive backup system on the market.

Elevated Protection for Modern Users

Custom Laser Engraving allows customers to personalize their Store-It drive enclosure with original text for fast and easy identification, to catalog the drive and its data, or to serialize To convert a parallel signal made up of one or more bytes into a serial signal that transmits one bit after the other.

serialize - serialise
 the drive to meet corporate policy. Using Custom Laser Engraving, hard drive owners can give their individual drives their own distinctive identities for more efficient tracking and security.

For users seeking an additional layer of security, the myDrive LOST-N-FOUND solution, offers an ideal solution for any user that stores important data on a hard drive. State-of-the-art machinery engraves an exclusive identification number on the drive enclosure, which is then recorded with its owner's contact information in Pexagon's database. Anyone locating a lost or stolen unit can simply log onto the Pexagon website and enter the engraved en·grave  
tr.v. en·graved, en·grav·ing, en·graves
1. To carve, cut, or etch into a material: engraved the champion's name on the trophy.

2.
 ID number shown on the unit and some additional information to receive a reward as Pexagon arranges for the safe return of the drive unit to its owner, free of charge. Throughout the process, the owner's personal information always remains confidential.

Pexagon offers both services to Store-It USB hard drive See external drive.  owners for just $9.99 each.

Additional information about the Customer Laser Engraving system and the myDrive LOST-N-FOUND solution can be found at www.pexagontech.com.

About Pexagon Technology, Inc.

Pexagon Technology, Inc. is the North American North American

named after North America.


North American blastomycosis
see North American blastomycosis.

North American cattle tick
see boophilusannulatus.
 value-added distributor of Hitachi Microdrives and an Original Equipment Manufacturer partner of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. Summary
Hitachi purchased IBM's hard disk drive division, integrated their own HDD operations, and launched the company in 2003.
. Hitachi, Microdrive, and Travelstar are registered trademarks of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. www.pexagontech.com
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